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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 856334" data-attributes="member: 463">I can sympathise with Joss, it must be scary to be on the receiving end of a negative-publicity campaign.  From the sound of it I don't think GLAD are doing anything to promote the cause they're supposed to stand for, though (as opposed to stirring up trouble for the sake of it).  I suppose that's a political comment, but when a fictional fantasy-genre character's behaviour is determined by political requirements I don't know whether discussing it is allowed or not.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Edit: what I'm thinking is, there seems to be a rule (apparently backed by threats, although I didn't realise this until I read this thread) on US tv that heterosexual characters can become homosexual, but not vice versa, and once having 'crossed', can never go back.  So it would not be acceptable for eg a happily homosexual character to fall in love with someone of the opposite gender, although the reverse is allowed (these days).  On the opposite side, it's noticeable that while lesbian heroic characters are now ok in genre fiction, male homosexual characters as protagonists are only allowed in comedy or as comedy relief, not as heroes (unlike Willow, say) - a couple of the 'Enterprise' series' main  characters seem obviously homosexual to me (and to my wife, who's pretty astute at that kind of thing), but apparently that's not officially the case.Getting away from gender orientation, I was wondering if there has yet been an example in genre shows of a black male character having a romantic relationship with a white female one?  This seems to be a bit of a conservative taboo on US tv (as opposed to black woman/white man, which seems to be accepted, funnily enough).  We're a month or so behind on Buffy in the UK btw, so if Wood & Buffy get together I don't know about it.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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